Hand Signed and dated 'CO 70' lower right. Published by Paul Bianchini. Reference: Printed Stuff: Prints, Poster, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996, Axsom and Platzker, 64

'Eraser' by Claes Oldenburg is a lithograph depicting a single object rendered with the precise, almost diagrammatic clarity that runs through his works on paper. A softly irregular white form — suggestive of a rubber eraser or a bulbous stopper — sits at the centre of concentric rings of dusty rose and dark red, its surface broken by a small circular indent. Below, a rectangular collar cinched with a stud releases a dense cascade of blue-grey fringe that occupies the lower half of the composition. The work is hand-numbered in pencil and dates from 1970. Oldenburg's career-long project of elevating the overlooked consumer object — the same impulse behind Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks — is at work here on a domestic scale: the eraser, a tool that undoes marks, rendered permanently in print.